A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead
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Book Overview
Photographs by Charlee Brodsky In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. The book details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of American...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822956764
ISBN13:9780822956761
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 7.0" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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A honest look at Homestead
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Having once lived in the Mon valley and now living in DC, it was hard for me to swallow the authors various descriptions of Homestead. But as I make my journies back to my home town, I realize that the novel is just truthful. The author does an excellent job of describing the life and times of the current Mon Valley
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